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How can I get videoId (selected on image) in PHP? It's my code and it's not working (I'm talking about echo [...]). It returns:

Fatal error: Cannot access empty property in /home/****/public_html/ytshots/index.php on line 38

$url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?maxResults=4&type=video&order=date&part=snippet&forUsername=MKL&key=****';
$data = file_get_contents($url);
$characters = json_decode($data);

echo $characters->$items['videoId'];

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Assuming that $characters represents the JSON object in your image, you're looking for the following:

echo $characters->items[0]->id->videoId;

This is because items is a key in the JSON array. items is actually an array, and you're trying to access the first index of it, so you need [0]. Then you need to target the next key down, which is id, not videoID. Then once you are inside the id object, you can access videoID as another key.

Hope this helps! :)

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  • It's working! Thank you very much :)! Sorry, but I can't give the vote for your answer :(. – Tomasz Chwicewski Jul 31 '17 at 00:24
  • @TomaszChwicewski - you can accept the answer though. – Alex Jul 31 '17 at 00:26
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